The second midseason of ABC Family’s college dramedy Greek kicks off tonight at 8pm ET with the premiere “Take Me Home Cyprus Rhodes,” which features Veronica Mars, Reaper, and Party Down actor Ken Marino in the role of Rusty’s fellow summer camp counselor.

While Rusty copes with his new existence as a sophomore Kappa Tau resident and engineering major, Casey tries to figure out how to break the news to her BFF Ashleigh that she intends to move out of the Zeta Beta Zeta house. Then there’s the ongoing tension caused by Frannie and her new sorority, which prompts Ashleigh to recruit a spy, whom Casey doesn’t trust, for a little undercover work.

Also, new freshman Andy (Jesse McCartney, Summerland), a student Calvin knows from high school, arrives and immediately attracts the attention of nearly everyone on campus, including Kappa Tau Gamma and Omega Chi Delta reps who want him as a pledge. Either Andy is one insanely awesome guy or the incoming frosh class at Cyprus-Rhodes University is pretty darn small and short on cool kids.

Two sneak peeks at the midseason premiere follow the jump. The first features Casey bumping into Ashleigh, Frannie, and Rebecca after arriving back on campus with Max Tyler (Michael Rady, Swingtown), and the second shows Andy getting a taste of frat life, super-sized Cappie style, with Rusty and Calvin.

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I hope everybody else is as psyched as I am for the return of Tony Shalhoub and his magnificent crime dramedy Monk.

The place to be at 9pm EST tonight is USA Network, which will air the seventh-midseason premiere of the show, a fun episode called “Mr. Monk and the Other Brother.” And, you betcha — it appears Adrian Monk does indeed have another sibling besides John Turturro’s recovered agoraphobic Ambrose, a half brother named Jack Jr. played by Joy Ride etcetera star Steve Zahn.

The action gets rolling at the very beginning of the episode, when poor Monk, busy whipping himself up a stack of perfectly square pancakes one morning, realizes that someone is breaking into his apartment. That someone is Jack, who has just escaped from prison and soon informs Monk that he needs help bringing the person who framed him for murder to justice.

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‘Til Death Ventures Down Below

And Sarah Silverman and her program return.

Notable Comedy TV scheduled for Wednesday, October 8 follows.

All times are Eastern Standard.

The New Adventures of Old Christine — White Like Me
When it appears in a business journal, Barb’s profile attracts lots of new clients to her and Christine’s business. Is the title suggesting that has something to do with somebody being white? Hmmm…
[8pm-8:30pm | CBS]

Pushing Daisies — Circus Circus
Team Ned searches for a missing teenager (Hayley McFarland) named Nikki Heaps who joins a circus where people keep ending up dead, and guilt-ridden Lily visits Olive at the nunnery.
[8pm-9pm | ABC | Sneak Peek]

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Season Two of The Sarah Silverman Program resumes tomorrow, October 8, with the midseason premiere “High, It’s Sarah.” Note the spelling of “high,” which leads me to believe Sarah is going to be just that.

Judging from the season preview trailer below, it looks like things are going to be just as tasteful as ever on the show, too. Take a look at what’s in store.

The Sarah Silverman Program airs Wednesdays on Comedy Central at 10:30pm EST.

Monday | April 21

• The Big Bang Theory: Roseanne’s Sara Gilbert makes another guest appearance as Leslie Winkle on The Bat Jar Conjecture. [8pm EST/CBS]
• How I Met Your Mother: A new Robin Sparkles video premieres on Sandcastles in the Sand, and James Van Der Beek guest stars. [8:30pm EST/CBS]
• Two and a Half Men: Both Jane Lynch and Emmanuelle Vaugier drop by to resurrect their previous roles on the ridiculously titled Rough Night in Hump Junction. [9pm EST/CBS]

Tuesday | April 22

• According to Jim: Younger viewers especially will probably appreciate the guest-star turns of The Suite Life of Zack and Cody twins Cole Sprouse and Dylan Sprouse on I Drink Your Milkshake. [8pm EST/ABC]
• Reaper: Nice. Not only does the series resume new episodes, but previous guests Ken Marino and Michael Ian Black are back on Rebellion. The Devil had better watch out! [9pm EST/The CW]

Wednesday | April 23

• Back to You: Lovely, lovely, lovely living legend Diahann Carroll lends her beautiful presence to Hug & Tell. [8:30pm EST/Fox]
• Men in Trees: The dramedy airs its last new episode before going on hiatus until May 28. [10pm EST/ABC]

Thursday | April 24

• Ugly Betty: Fresh episodes finally kick back in. [8pm EST/ABC]
• 30 Rock: Chris Parnell, Rip Torn, and Will Arnett are all onboard for Succession. Keep in mind that the sitcom has also switched time slots with Scrubs. [9:31pm EST/NBC]

Saturday | April 26

• Drew Hastings: Irked and Miffed: A comedy special for standup lovers. [11pm EST/Comedy Central]

Sunday | April 27

• Aliens in America: After over a month of repeats, new episodes start back up with The Muslim Card. [8:30pm EST/The CW]

Monday | April 14

• Rules of Engagement: The sitcom returns with Time Share. [9:30pm EST/CBS]

Tuesday | April 15

• According to Jim: The series resumes its seventh season with The Gift Certificate. Jim repeats will follow each Tuesday night at 8:30pm for now. [8pm EST/ABC]

Wednesday | April 16

• ‘Til Death: The sitcom returns with Raisinette in the Sun. [8pm EST/Fox]
• Under One Roof: Former Public Enemy Flavor Flav stars in his new sitcom’s Pilot. [8pm EST/MyNetworkTV]
• Back to You: The series returns with The Wall of Fame. [8:30pm EST/Fox]

Thursday | April 17

• Eli Stone: The dramedy airs its first-season finale Soul Free. There’s been no announcement yet of a second season. [10pm EST/ABC]

Monday | April 7

• Samantha Who?: The freshman season re-opens for business with The Girlfriend. [9:32pm EST/ABC]

Tuesday | April 8

• Boston Legal: This legal dramedy extraordinaire returns from hiatus with Tabloid Nation. [10:02pm EST/ABC]

Thursday | April 10

• 30 Rock: TGS and crew are back from the writers-strike zone with MILF Island. [8:30pm EST/NBC]
• The Office: The first new episode this spring is The Dinner Party. [9pm EST/NBC]
• Scrubs: Season seven continues at last with My Bad Too. [9:31pm EST/NBC]
• Eli Stone: Married with Children and 8 Simple Rules star Katey Sagal begins her first of two guest-star appearances on Patience. [10pm EST/ABC]

Sunday | April 13

• Monk/Psych: Sunday nights in April are reserved for replays of episodes from these popular USA series on sister broadcast channel NBC. [8pm & 9pm EST/NBC]
• Desperate Housewives: Those Wisteria Lane vixens are on the tube anew with the appropriately titled Sunday. [9pm EST/ABC]
• Dirt: Courteney Cox and company bid adieu with the early second-season finale In Lieu of Flowers…. [10pm EST/FX]

Thursday, April 10, NBC’s signature comedy lineup will return in full form. The first sitcom of the night with fresh episodes and fresh off of a Peabody Award win is 30 Rock, of course.

On “MILF Island,” a new reality series of the same name has bossman Jack Donaghy absolutely thrilled over its success … that is, until a popular gossip column reveals an employee has been talking smack about him. Jack being Jack, he then becomes obsessed with outing the disloyal underling.

30 Rock airs Thursdays on NBC at 8:30pm EST.

Apparently, the gang wasn’t too successful reviving Earl on the previous episode of My Name Is Earl because he’s still unconscious when this one, “Stole a Motorcycle,” kicks off. Fortunately, his brother Randy picks up on a weird thing (as he typically does) and then runs with it to help improve Earl’s health.

Earl’s not doing as badly as everyone around him believes, however, because he’s wrapped up in a dream world where he and Billie (Guest Star Alyssa Milano) are blissfully wed. It’s about time Mr. Karma scored in his love life, even if everything is just imagined.

The Teutul family from the TLC series American Chopper also appears.

My Name Is Earl airs Thursdays on NBC at 8pm EST.

What have we here? It looks like My Name Is Earl is back in business, with an extended hourlong return, no less!

On the two-part, supersize post-strike premiere “I Won’t Die with a Little Help from My Friends,” the series picks up after the car accident that felled Earl and his new love interest Billie (Guest Star Alyssa Milano) at the end of the January episode “Bad Earl.”

Earl is now in a coma, and it’s up to the usual suspects — namely, Randy, Joy, Darnell, and Catalina — to make sure he doesn’t leave this world forever. Can the gang do it?

I don’t know. Maybe the real healer will be Earl’s dream featuring hotel heiress Paris Hilton. Nightmares like that should wake up just about anybody.

My Name Is Earl will air Thursdays on NBC at 8pm EST after this week’s special post-strike premiere, which also begins at 8pm.